Running out of time.

[Cie la vie]

So yes, I'd ask. Typically rings are considered gifts, but W is acting as if she's so turned the page, she has no sentimental attachment to anything. She'd rather erase everything.

I'd would be mildly surprised if she resisted returning it. But you never know. My W seems to be in the same frame of mind yours is with having turned the page. All sentimentality has been wiped clean from her brain as far as I can tell. One of her comments shortly after dropping the bomb was "I've closed this chapter in my life". She has also affectively erased any good memories of our relationship/marriage from her mind as well. She simply has not acknowledge a single good time we ever had. Strange.

So in a perverse way, it hurt like hell that it was so easy.

I know what you mean, everthing seems so easy and casual when it comes to discarding the marriage and anything to do with it. The complete lack of emotion seems so inhuman. I am not capable of such behavior. It sends a chill through me to be on the receiving end of such casual indifference.